> maybe this is a new strain of> spontaneous/sporadic PICKS just in Alaska;-(TSS)

ON the more serious side, maybe a human form of CWD?

Marten died in 1993. He initially was diagnosed with Pick's disease, another rare brain disease. A new analysis of his brain tissue found that although he did have Pick's, he did not have a prion disease.

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Roger Marten of Mondovi, also showed no evidence of prions or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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The test results announced today indicate that Wayne Waterhouse, a northern Wisconsin resident who died in 1993, did not have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or any other evidence of prions or prion-related illness. Results already made public indicated that another of the patients, Roger Marten, a northern Wisconsin resident who died in 1993, also did not have CJD or any other evidence of prions or prion-related illness.